Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-10-22
INDIA RUBBER.


India rubber as gathered in Colombia
\ hole is dug at the foot Of the tree, about
the roots of which space has been previ-
ously cleared. The hunter then cuts in
the bark V-shaped incision, as high from
the ground as his arm will stretch. The
milk then exudes from the cut, and runs
into the hole below When no more milk
can be made to run by this process the tree
is cut down, gathered in every direction,
whilst leaves are placed to catch the milk
that flows from the cuts. The rubber as it
comes from the tree is as white as cream,
but it speedily turns black on exposure to
the air. 1t is coagulated in the holes
where ii is collected by the means of hard
soap, when it is ready for market. The
practice OF cutting down the trees in order
to obtain the rubber is equivalent to kill
ing the goose with the golden eggs, and
there is no doubt that unless the Govern
ment takes stringent measures for their
protection, the local trade in India rubber
will come to an end.
TscHooP.
Most Of the boy readers are doubtless ia
miliar with Co0per's stirring story of the
Last VI L4tt -uOIlCduS, but lew vi liSIli
probably know the true conclusion of the
great warriors life.
His real name was Tschoop. He was
famous, not only for his skill as leader in
war, and for his fiery eloquence, but for his
excessive dissipation; Tor he was able to
drink an amount of fre-water that would
have killed two ordinary Indians. In
l74l, Moravian missionary, Christian
Rauch, went to Tschoop's hut and asked
him if he did not wish to save his soul.
I'VE all do that" replied the chief.
Rauch explained the Christian religion
to him, and prayed and pleaded with him
even with tears. but apparently without
effect. He remained for months near the
Indian.
Tschoop was a fierce, gigantic savage,
little, insignificant man.
The chief at last protested Christianity,
and was baptized under the name of John.
In letter which he sent 10 the Della
wares, he says: " | have been heather.
A preacher came to preach to me that
there is God. | said, Do I not know
that? Go back whence thou earnest ?
Another came and preached that it was
ruin for me to lie and to get drunk |
said, Do | not know that? Am | q fool p
Then Christian Rauch came into my hut
and sat down beside me day after day and
told me of my sins, and of Jesus who died
to save me from them. | said, l will kill
you But he said, trust in Jesus
So one day, being weary, he lay down
in my hut and fell asleep. And | said,
What kind of man is this little fellow?
might kill him and throw him into the
woods and no man would regard it. Yet
there he sleeps, because Jesus will take
care of him. Who is this Jesus? |, too
will find the man."
The great chief preached the Christian
religion with the same fiery eloquence
which had given him power among his
people, and for many years went up and
down among the tribes in the Western
wilderness.
He is buried in the old Goods Acre" OF
the Moravians at Bethlehem. The first
missionaries and their converts lie in long
rows under the flat greensward, each with
little square stone above his breast, on
which is his name But above Tschoop's
grave some kindly hand has planted a
white rose. 1t is the only grave among
them all on which flower grows Youth
(DtD Dnni0n